Calgary wants to shut down one of the city's busiest streets to make it a pedestrian only artery. I don t know about you, but I don't think that's going to solve the problem. I think we need to stop letting politicians get away with what they do.
00:00:00.280Kind of tying in with everything else we've got going on with the crime I was talking about that Arthur Green writes about quite often and things like that.
00:00:09.160We have that in Calgary. These civic government skies, we've got to stop letting our municipal politicians get away with what they do.
00:00:17.900We've got to stop putting these woke lunatics into the mayor's chairs and council chairs. We're paying a price for it.
00:00:24.140So yeah, Calgary's downtown. As I said, we got some serious, serious crime challenges right now.
00:00:30.000I think the reason we're not hearing about a lot of them right now is that the Stampede is overwhelming everything with news coverage.
00:00:36.280So in Edmonton, you're hearing it. When we were sitting there, it was at least six ambulances went by on 10th Avenue where we were down there enjoying ourselves on the patio, having a fun time.
00:00:47.260And we know the majority of that was for overdoses. No easy solutions, but we really got to address those things and quit kicking the ball down the road and can down the road and trying to procrastinate with it.
00:00:56.900But in Calgary, they're coming up with even more stupid things. Yeah, I know. There's always room for municipal politicians to come up with stupid.
00:01:04.560And, you know, everybody in just about every city can nod their head because they know they've seen idiotic anti-automotive policies like this come up because there's this cult-like thing.
00:01:15.540I mean, I mean, some point out it's, you know, agenda 2030, things like that. I think those inspire a lot of these municipal politicians, but they really are at war with vehicles.
00:01:23.080So what they want to do, I'm going to describe it a bit because not everybody viewing, of course, is from Calgary.
00:01:28.740But Calgary, south of the downtown, has sort of a main artery full of businesses, neat spots, restaurants, bars, stores.
00:01:37.460It's 17th Avenue Southwest. And it goes through an area that's called the Beltline.
00:01:43.000And so it's kind of outside of the main skyscrapers, but it has a lot of apartments, a lot of high-density living and a lot of population.
00:01:49.840Well, the clowns in City Hall are saying, you know, we should shut 17th Avenue down and make it a big, long pedestrian zone.
00:01:57.300Oh, and they're talking seriously about this.
00:01:59.360Now, 17th Avenue moves 15,000 vehicles a day.
00:02:04.340If you go south of 17th, describe it to others, that's Mount Royal.
00:02:08.920It's not a good neighborhood to get through for getting one place to another.
00:02:11.780It's on a hill, and it's a rich neighborhood full of mansions.
00:02:14.220You go north, you're going farther into downtown.
00:02:17.460Now, what the hipsters who were supporting this idea and the others saying,
00:02:20.720oh, we would love that. We don't want cars in our Beltline.
00:02:24.400Those 15,000 vehicles are all going to pour onto the other streets, guys, to get around that.
00:02:29.080They were going from one place to another place, and they can't stop just because you morons.
00:05:29.140It's also got loads of for lease signs because the city won't stop the social disorder and nightmare that's going on there.
00:05:34.220And they've throttled all the parking so badly that people don't come down there to visit those businesses because it costs too bloody much.
00:05:42.040Either way, the whole bottom line of what I'm getting to is we see this everywhere.
00:05:45.820But the part of having these progressives winning these civic elections, the problem isn't that they're winning.
00:05:53.720It's that they're winning because only 2030 at tops, 40% of people are bothering to get off their butts and vote in municipal elections.